Giorgia Meloni Emerges as a Champion for Western Unity
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni speaks during a joint statement with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the end of Italian-German government consultations at Villa Doria Pamphili in Rome, Italy, January 23, 2026.
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No Western leader understands and embraces our cultural inheritance more fully than the Italian prime minister.
Since the creation of NATO in 1949, the most eloquent defender of the democratic ideals of the West has been the United States. Today, that role arguably belongs to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
“When I speak about the West, I don’t speak about the geographical space,” Meloni said during a meeting at the White House last year. “I speak about the civilization. And I want to make that civilization stronger.”
No U.S. administration in modern memory, however, has acted with greater indifference to the Western political alliance than that of Donald Trump. At the conclusion of the NATO summit in Ankara, ...
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